The World: China: The Fall of Mao's Heir

WITH mounting frustration, outsiders have sought for more than two
months to make sense of portents from Peking suggesting an epic
struggle for power in China. Last week China watchers from Hong Kong to
Washington at last claimed to have some tangible evidence about the
mysterious events. Only the barest dimensions of the conflict are
discernible, but Western intelligence experts now believe that they
have enough clues, including several from sources within China, to draw
some dramatic conclusions: